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Source: <<A>> book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs. http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/203809

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a Withdrawing-Room towards the Gardem, of the same dimensions with the Hall. There are four noble Apartments on this Floor, each consisting of an Antichamber, Bedchamber and Closet, and Intersoles over the Closets. All the Rooms on this Floor (except thhe Salon and Closets) are 20 feet high. There are two Stone Stair-cases that lead to the upper Apartments, which are 11 feet high; and are render'd private by Passages of Communication between the Stair-cases (express'd by the prick'd Lines upon the Plan) which are lighted from the Freeze of the Salon.

PLATE XLVI.
A House intended to have been built at Greenwich in 1720, on a beautiful Situation. It is 130 feet in front by 90 feet deep, rais'd 5 feet above the level of a Court of 150 by 186 feet. You ascend 10 Steps to a Portico, and then enter a Salon of 25 by 30 feet, and 30 feet high; on each Side of which there is a very handsome Apartment. From the Salon you pass forward to a Gallery of 25 by 76 feet, at each end of which there is an Apartment. There are great Stairs on each side of the Salon, and a large Room of 22 by 25 feet in the middle of the End-Fronts: The Rooms on the principal Floor are 18 feet high, and the Lodging Rooms over them 13 feet. This House was propos'd to have been built in Portland Stone, and finish'd in a very expensive manner.

PLATE XLVII.
The two Fronts of the foregoing Plan, of the Ionick Order.

PLATE XLVIII.
The Plan of a House made for the Right Honourable Earl Fitzwilliams to be built at Milton near Peterborough. It is 144 eet in front by 105 feet in depth, and consists of 12 Rooms on a Floor, besides four Closets, two Great Stair-cases and four Back Stair-cases: Here is a large Salon in Front, a Dining-Room towards the Garden, and four noble Apartments, besides a Chapel and a large Billiard-Room. You either enter the House upon the Level of the Court, or ascend from the Court to the principal Floor by Outside-Stairs; and from the Garden in the same manner. I have given two Plans of the House on this Plate; the principal Floor, which is 15 feet high, and that of the Offices underneath.

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